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Tending to advance, promote, or encourage. Hume.

To move forward; to advance; to promote. [Obs.] Bp. Fell.

A promoter. [Obs.]

A medicine that promotes the discharge of saliva.

a book. -- To put forward. (a) To advance to a position of prominence responsibility; to promote. (b) To cause to make progress; to aid.

Causing, or tending to promote, putrefaction. -- Pu``tre*fac"tive*ness, n.

on; to elevate in rank, dignity, and the like; to increase the value or estimation of; to promote; to exalt; to advance; to enhance; as, to raise from a low estate; to raise to office; to raise the price, and the like. This gentleman came to be raised to great titles. Clarendon. The plate pieces of eight were raised th…

One who, or that which, reverts. An active promoter in making the East Saxons converts, or rather reverts, to the faith. Fuller.

A clergyman or layman who promotes revivals of religion; an advocate for religious revivals; sometimes, specifically, a clergyman, without a particular charge, who goes about to promote revivals. Also used adjectively.

To attain to a better social position; to be promoted; to excel; to succeed. Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall. Shak.

That which promotes injury, decay, or destruction. The errors of young men are the ruin of business. Bacon.

To promote the welfare and safety of; to benefit; to gratify. [Obs.] "If this salute my blood a jot." Shak.

Tendency to promote salvation. Johnson.

That which promotes secretion.

An inciter or promoter of sedition. Bp. Hall.

A substance that promotes putrefaction.

Having power to promote putrefaction.

In a septic manner; in a manner tending to promote putrefaction.

To contribute or conduce to; to promote; to be sufficient for; to satisfy; as, to serve one's turn. Turn it into some advantage, by observing where it can serve another end. Jer. Taylor.

Useful office; advantage conferred; that which promotes interest or happiness; benefit; avail. The stork's plea, when taken in a net, was the service she did in picking up venomous creatures. L'Estrange.